| Volume Type | gp2 | gp3 | io1 | io2 | io2 Block Express ‡ |
|---|
| Durability | 99.8% - 99.9% durability | - | 99.8% - 99.9% durability | 99.999% durability | - |
| (0.1% - 0.2% annual failure rate) | - | (0.1% - 0.2% annual failure rate) | (0.001% annual failure rate) | - |
| Use Cases | Transactional workloads | - | Workloads that require | - | Workloads that require |
| Virtual desktops | - | | - | - Sub-millisecond latency |
| Medium-sized, single-instance databases, | - | - sustained IOPS performance | - | - Sustained IOPS performance |
| Low-latency interactive applications | - | - more than 16,000 IOPS | - | - More than 64,000 IOPS or 1,000 MiB/s of throughput |
| Boot volumes | - | I/O-intensive database workloads | - | |
| Development and test environments | - | | - | |
| Volume Size | 1 GiB - 16 TiB | - | 4 GiB - 16 TiB | - | 4 GiB - 64 TiB |
| Max IOPS per Volume (16KB IO) | 16,000 | | 64,000 † | - | 256,000 |
| Max Throughput per Volume | Up to 250 MiB/s | 1,000 MiB/s | 1,000 MiB/s † | - | 4,000 MiB/s |
| Amazon EBS Multi-attach | Not supported | - | Supported | - | - |
| Max IOPS per Instance | Not supported | - | 350,000 | 160,000 | 350.000 |
| Max Throughput per Instance | Not supported | - | 10,000 MB/s | 4,750 MB/s | 10,000 MB/s |
| Boot Volume | Supported | - | - | - | - |
- Baseline IOPS: 3,000 IOPS
- Additional IOPS cost: 500 IOPS / GiB of volume size
- Maximum IOPS can be provisioned for volumes 32 GiB or larger (500 IOPS per GiB × 32 GiB = 16,000 IOPS).
- Baseline throughput: 125 MiB/s
- Additional throughput cost: 0.25 MiB/s per provisioned IOPS
- Maximum throughput can be provisioned at 4,000 IOPS or higher and 8 GiB or larger (4,000 IOPS × 0.25 MiB/s per IOPS = 1,000 MiB/s).
| gp3 Volume Size | 1GiB | … | 8GiB | …. | 32GiB | … | 16TiB |
|---|
| (Min Volume Size) | | | | | | (Max Volume Size ) |
| IOPS performance | Baseline IOPS (3,000 IOPS) | | | | Max IOPS (16,000 IOPS) | | |
| Throughput performance | Baseline Throughput (125 MiB/s) | | Max Throughput (1,000 MiB/s) | | Max Throughput (1,000 MiB/s) | | |
- gp3 volume instance with min spec:
3,000 iops / 1 GB = 3,000.00 IOPS to GB ratio (gp3)
125 MBps / 3,000 iops = 0.04 IOPS to Throughput ratio
1 volumes x 730 instance hours = 730.00 total instance hours
730.00 instance hours / 730 hours in a month = 1.00 instance months
1 GB x 1.00 instance months x 0.08 USD = 0.08 USD (EBS Storage Cost)
EBS Storage Cost: 0.08 USD
3,000 iops - 3000 GP3 iops free = 0.00 billable gp3 iops
EBS IOPS Cost: 0.00 USD
125 MBps - 125 GP3 MBps free = 0.00 billable MBps
EBS Snapshot Cost: 0 USD
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) total cost (monthly): 0.08 USD
- gp3 volume instance with 32GB volume size and no provisional IOPS, throughput
3,000 iops / 32 GB = 93.75 IOPS to GB ratio (gp3)
125 MBps / 3,000 iops = 0.04 IOPS to Throughput ratio
1 volumes x 730 instance hours = 730.00 total instance hours
730.00 instance hours / 730 hours in a month = 1.00 instance months
32 GB x 1.00 instance months x 0.08 USD = 2.56 USD (EBS Storage Cost)
EBS Storage Cost: 2.56 USD
3,000 iops - 3000 GP3 iops free = 0.00 billable gp3 iops
EBS IOPS Cost: 0.00 USD
125 MBps - 125 GP3 MBps free = 0.00 billable MBps
EBS Snapshot Cost: 0 USD
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) total cost (monthly): 2.56 USD
- gp3 volume instance with max spec:
16,000 iops / 32 GB = 500.00 IOPS to GB ratio (gp3)
1,000 MBps / 16,000 iops = 0.06 IOPS to Throughput ratio
1 volumes x 730 instance hours = 730.00 total instance hours
730.00 instance hours / 730 hours in a month = 1.00 instance months
32 GB x 1.00 instance months x 0.08 USD = 2.56 USD (EBS Storage Cost)
EBS Storage Cost: 2.56 USD
16,000 iops - 3000 GP3 iops free = 13,000.00 billable gp3 iops
Max (13000.00 iops, 0 minimum billable iops) = 13,000.00 total billable gp3 iops
13,000.00 iops x 1.00 instance months x 0.005 USD = 65.00 USD (EBS IOPS gp3 Cost)
EBS IOPS Cost: 65.00 USD
1,000 MBps - 125 GP3 MBps free = 875.00 billable MBps
Max (875.00 MBps, 0 minimum mbps) = 875.00 billable throughput (MBps)
875.00 MBps / 1024 MB per GB = 0.8545 billable throughput (GBps)
0.8545 GBps x 1.00 instance months x 40.96 USD = 35.00 USD (EBS gp3 throughput Cost)
EBS Snapshot Cost: 0 USD
2.56 USD + 65.00 USD + 35.00 USD = 102.56 USD (Total EBS cost)
Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) total cost (monthly): 102.56 USD
| Volume Type | st1 | sc1 |
|---|
| Durability | 99.8% - 99.9% durability | - |
| (0.1% - 0.2% annual failure rate) | - |
| Use Cases | | |
| - Big data | - Throughput-oriented storage for data that is infrequently accessed |
| - Data warehouses | - Scenarios where the lowest storage cost is important |
| - Log processing | |
| Volume Size | 125 GiB - 16 TiB | - |
| Max IOPS per volume (1 MiB I/O) | 500 | 250 |
| Max Throughput per volume | 500 MiB/s | 250 MiB/s |
| Baseline throughput | 40 MiB/s per TiB (Base) | 12 MiB/s per TiB (Base) |
| 250 MiB/s per TiB (Burst) | 80 MiB/s per TiB (Burst) |
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| Amazon EBS Multi-attach | Not supported | Not supported |
| Boot volume | Not supported | Not supported |